Mrs Kennedy : missing history of the Kennedy years by Leaming Barbara

Author:Leaming, Barbara [Leaming, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2002-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

Kennedy's meeting with Rusk and the others was the last on his schedule for Monday. He left the Oval Office at twenty past seven and headed upstairs for the night. Ten minutes later, Mary Meyer signed in. Secret Service agents tended to be frustrated when Dave Powers made it impossible for them to check the purses of the various women he delivered to Kennedy. There was no such impediment to looking into Mary's purse, but her status as a member of the Kennedy circle made such a probe seem unnecessary. A familiar guest, she was unlikely to bring in anything that might pose a threat. Had she been checked on this occasion, however, it would have been discovered that she was carrying six marijuana cigarettes. Marijuana, as it happened, was very much Mary's second choice of hallucinogen this evening, her avowed desire being to turn the President on to L.S.D.

By this point in her affair with Kennedy, Mary found herself in the position many of his sexual partners did. She had known him long enough to be aware that his interest tended to be fleeting. In Lem Billings's words. Jack "liked a new face and he liked to change around." Mary could harbor no illusion that she was the only (other) woman in his life, or that she was without formidable competition: movie stars, great beauties, young girls, expensive hookers, and many others all vying for their turn with the most powerful man on earth. Still, at forty-one, Mary had been pitched into the great drama of her life and, having been deeply embarrassed when the man for whom she had planned to leave her husband ditched her, she did not wish to repeat the experience with Jack. Knowing that it would be difficult to keep his attention, wanting to add spice to the time he spent in her company, Mary seized on hallucinogens as the way to his heart. She described some of her own acid trips and Jack, who loved such mad talk, said he'd like to try it. In the aftermath of the White House dinner dance when she and the President slipped off together, Mary traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychology professor who was high priest of the burgeoning psychedelic movement, to teach her to conduct an L.S.D. session.

She appeared at Leary's faculty office unannounced and explained that she had related her own L.S.D. experiences to "a very important man" in Washington. Her noted friend wanted to try acid, Mary reported, but as "a public figure" could hardly come to Leary himself. She went on to suggest that her interest was no mere casual search for sensation but had a serious political aim. She had heard Allen Ginsberg say that if Khrushchev and Kennedy took acid together, they would end

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